Pink Lane Bakery

Company description
Come and join Newcastle's largest artisan bakery to steer our bread team in the years ahead. Pink Lane Bakery has been baking for the people Newcastle since 2012 and has grown to a team of 60 with 4 retail shops plus a thriving wholesale and catering business. Our current head baker is moving on after 6 years of incredible growth leading a super team of 13 people to produce heavy volumes of sourdough and viennoisserie.
This is an incredible time to join the business as the senior management step into more responsibility, including share owenership and eventual buyout. We're looking for a motivated and highly skilled baker to not only continuing to manage the team to upkeep our extremely high standards and consitency, but to join us in an important role to further shape the business in the years to come.
Job description
We're looking for an experienced and passionate Artisan Baker who can take on this hands on role to work up to 45 hours a week, to deliver these duties:
<ul>
<li>Leading production to deliver high quality artisanal bakes</li>
<li>Oversee mixing, baking and processes</li>
<li>Maintenance of our equipment</li>
<li>Product development, refine and innovate our recipes</li>
<li>Take responsibility for team confidence and morale</li>
<li>To be compliant with food satey practices including HACCP</li>
<li>Scheduling and Rota's</li>
<li>Develop relationships with our wholesale customers</li>
</ul>
You'll need
<ul>
<li>Several years experience managing a sourdough production team</li>
<li>Deep understanding of fermentation in bread</li>
<li>Advanced knowledge of viennoissie products and laminating</li>
<li>A skilled pastry background is high desirable</li>
<li>Flexibility in your working pattern, including early starts to working Saturdays</li>
<li>Solid experience in managing people and training a bakery team (we put a lot of emphasis on our training and developing staff here)</li>
<li>A commercial understanding of the bakery business and knowing the importance of your GP - closely monitoring price changes and being competetive in finding cheaper alternatives, retaining efficiency and a close eye on scheduling hours</li>
<li>Quickly integrate into an experienced team and contribute from day one</li>
</ul>
What we offer
Here at Pink Lane, we really value people and we pride ourselves on our staff benefits, they include:
<ul>
<li>Guarantee a rise at least in line with inflation every year</li>
<li>6 weeks holiday</li>
<li>Paid breaks</li>
<li>Access to a health and wellbeing service</li>
<li>Far more than statutory sick, maternity, paternity, bereavement and carers benefits.</li>
<li>Cycle to work scheme and lots of training opportunities to upskill</li>
<li>Relocation support</li>
<li>For the right candidate, an exciting opportunity be a part of the to leadership team and ownershop of the company</li>
</ul>
The people who fit really well here at Pink Lane, are imaginative and self suffient. They bring a calm sense of problem solving and managing their team to deliver the best possible product daily. You'll enjoy it here if you're looking for work life balance, although we pride ourselves on hardwork and efficiency, we strive to build a business here where everyones voice is heard and skills are valued.
We are very open to assisting and offering monetary support towards relocation should you be from another city or country and are interested in living in the great city of Newcastle! It's a great family friendly city to leave in, affordable housing compared to other regions, beautiful national parks and coastline on your doorstep.
If you've built your skills in artisan bakeries, and feel confident that your team management ability is ready for a new challenge, get in touch! We'd be happy to have an informal chat about the role before the deadline. Do apply with a CV and detailed cover letter telling us about you, your skills and experience and why you want to work here. The cover letter is really important to understand you so don't skip that part, applications without it won't be considered. This is also a highly skilled senior role, so please reflect on the criteria before applying.
Please note that sometimes we hire before the closing date of the application, so get your applications in early. There’s no fixed start date for this role, we‘re more interested in the right candidate.
Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Pay: £37,000.00 per year
Benefits:
<ul>
<li>Bereavement leave</li>
<li>Casual dress</li>
<li>Company pension</li>
<li>Cycle to work scheme</li>
<li>Discounted or free food</li>
<li>Employee discount</li>
<li>Enhanced maternity leave</li>
<li>Enhanced paternity leave</li>
<li>Health &amp; wellbeing programme</li>
<li>Profit sharing</li>
<li>Relocation assistance</li>
<li>Sick pay</li>
<li>Store discount</li>
</ul>
Experience:
<ul>
<li>Bakery Management: 2 years (required)</li>
</ul>
Work Location: In person

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